Painter&#39;s pail



April 1960 A OUELLETTE PAINTERS PAIL Filed Sept. 24, 1957 IN V EN TOR.

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Patented Apr. l 1960 PAINTERS PAIL Ludger A. Ouellette, West Hartford,Conn, assignor of one-half to Roger B. Rudder, Avon, Conn.

Application September 24, 1957, Serial No. 685,875 1 Claim. (Cl.15-1213) This invention relates to a painters pail and more particularlyto a pail that is primarily intended for use with paint rollers.

An object of my invention is to provide a pail which is. adapted tocontain a substantial amount of paint, in which the roller is dipped,and which pail is provided with means for conveniently and quicklyextracting the superfluous paint from the roller.

A further object of this invention is to provide a pail which willgreatly facilitate the use of a paint roller.

Further objects and advantages of the invention will be more clearlyunderstood from the following description and from the accompanyingdrawing in which:

Fig. l is a plan view of a painters pail embodying the presentinvention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional side view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a rear view of the rolling plate used in connection with thisinvention.

As shown in the drawing, my improved painters pail includes a container5 having a bottom 6 with side walls 7-7 and upwardly extending end walls8-8, each of which is inclined outwardly at an angle of approximatelyseventy degrees since it has been found that this angle is mostappropriate for the best results.

The said pail is provided with brackets 9-9 upon which there ispivotally mounted a handle bail 10 having a central notch 11 formedtherein to prevent slipping of the handle and unbalancing of the pailwhen it is hung on a hook or the like.

My invention is particularly directed to the provision of an improvedroller loading device for facilitating the use of a paint roller. Thesaid device includes a rolling plate 12 which is preferably corrugatedhorizontally and mounted upon a pair of vertical supporting bars 13-13having hook portions 14-14 by means of which the said plate is hung overthe edge of one of the end walls 8. The said supporting bars are alsoprovided with foot portions 15-15 which space them from the end wall soas to provide a spacebetween the rolling plate and said end wall, asclearly illustrated in Fig. 2.

The said rolling plate 12 has a suitable number of perforations 16through the upper portion thereof for the passage of paint which isextracted from the roller. A stop bar 21 extends across said plate andis adapted to engage the roller and prevent it from being carried oi?the said rolling plate.

In order to support the conventional roller, indicated in dotted linesat 17, within said pail, I provide a supporting bracket 18 whichpreferably includes a pair of rollersupporting portions 19-19 havinghook portions 2020 which are adapted to fit over the edge of theopposite end wall 8 to mount said bracket thereon.

In the use of my improved pail, paint is placed therein, preferably upto the level indicated at 22. The roller 17 is then held by its handle,dipped into said paint and then rolled upwardly against the rollingplate 12. This extracts the surplus paint from the surface of the rollerand said surplus paint then passes through the perforations l6 anddrains downwardly, between the rolling plate and the respective end wall8, back into the paint at the bottom of the pail.

It will be noted that when the roller and down against the plate 12, theroller from rolling off said tates the operation the roller.

When the roller is not being used, it is merely placed in the brackets19 and the handle of said roller will rest upon the bar 21 as clearlyshown in Fig. 2.,

I claim:

In a painters pail having a bottom, side Walls, end walls divergingupwardly from said bottom, a' corrugated surface on one of said endwalls and a stop bar disposed transversely upon the upper portion ofsaid corrugated surface and extending inwardly therefrom; thecombination of a bracket mounted upon the opposite end wall of said pailand including hook means extending over the edge of said opposite endwall for supporting the bracket thereon, and a pair of spaced hooksdisposed inwardly of said pail and adapted for receiving and supportinga paint roller with the handle thereof 17 is rolled up the bar 21 willprevent plate and thereby faciliof extracting the surplus paint fromresting upon said stop bar.

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